queued

[ kyood ]

adjective

1. waiting in a line:

   The motorcycle zipped by, overtaking the queued cars and cutting in front of all of them.

2. Computers. assigned to or arranged in a list of items waiting for action:

   The service has since been restored and all queued emails have been delivered.

   The queued operations may be rearranged and optimized before execution.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of queue ( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of queued¹

queue ( def ) + -ed ²( def ), -ed ³( def )

Example Sentences

They fork over their allowance to secure a place in the virtual queue.

From Washington Post

Instead of assigning an agent to constantly monitor the chat app, companies are able to feed that information directly to customer service agents, forming a queue alongside tickets from other communication platforms such as texts or phone calls.

From Fortune

Indeed, for many advertisers, 2020 is the year to jump the queue and go early with campaigns.

From Digiday

Meanwhile, the queue worker is constantly checking the queue.

From ProPublica

As requests come into the queue, it generates the webpage from the origin and updates the corresponding cache in the data store.

From ProPublica

When Madame Tussauds unveiled their new waxwork of Kate, people queued up for a chance to feel “her” hair.

From The Daily Beast

They queued at roadside snack stands for rations of peanuts, a holiday tradition.

From The Daily Beast

Most recently, Venezuelans queued for hours in search of wheat flour.

From The Daily Beast

Beneath the sign, young men stood with machine guns slung over their shoulders, while female residents queued to see Dr. Sheikh.

From The Daily Beast

By two in the afternoon, the customers were queued up down the block.

From The Daily Beast

In a long-queued, porcelain Chinese mandarin he distinctly recognised a quaint quatrain in one of Clarke's most marvellous poems.

From Project Gutenberg

Double-queued: two tails, as No. 181, which is a lion rampant double-queued.

From Project Gutenberg

That some of them clubbed and some of them queued their hair, I have already remarked.

From Project Gutenberg

She then went to a trunk and got a ribbon and queued my hair very nicely.

From Project Gutenberg

The white hair is still politely queued, and the close-shaven cheeks glisten with the neat polish of the razor's edge; but, alas!

From Project Gutenberg